If humans lost the ability to experience 'sadness'?
It seams so anti-ramantic to suggest sadness has no value, but at the same time, we regard sadness as 'bad' and by definition things that are bad are things we don't want.
Arent things like sadness worth feeling occasionally? Wouldnt it boring to only experience happiness? But at the same time, why would anyone want to experience sadness?
2007-07-23 11:28:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Ramantic = Romantic, my bad
2007-07-23 11:34:08 · update #1
If humans lost the ability to experience sadness, there would be no happiness, because we would no longer be able to define it against its counterpart. Feeling sadness has so much value -- it makes us realize how wonderful it is to feel happiness, and to strive to acquire that feeling every single day. If we were never sad, we would just exist in a state of numbness. I would take a few moments of sadness any day over feeling nothing.
2007-07-23 13:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by Shihan 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would rather feel sadness than be numb. Feelings make me feel alive! Have you ever had an operation and were medicated so you couldn't feel pain? Well, maybe that's not a good example. How about the people who take morphine to numb their feelings? They might as well be vegetables. No sadness, no happiness, just simple existence. Waiting for their time to pass so that they don't need to feel anymore.
2007-07-23 19:22:10 · answer #2 · answered by Granny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything is polarized in life to keep things in equilibrium. Without sadness, would we really have a true concept of happiness. We would mostly be indifferent, which partially negates the purpose of life.
2007-07-23 19:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by Nep 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sadness is an essential and valuable part of human experience.
we experience unhappiness when we resist any aspect of our experience, including sadness.
it is natural and appropriate to experience sadness when we part from those we love.
it is an indivisible aspect of truly feeling love, and can be a very beautiful experience of the depth of our love.
unhappiness is not synonymous with sadness, nor is unhappiness essential, but it seems sometimes to be necessary for our progress.
2007-07-23 19:09:35 · answer #4 · answered by joju 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there wouldn't be sadness , how would you know what is happiness, or the same thing, if there wasn't the ugly, how would you see the beautiful?Life is about balance.
2007-07-23 21:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
Sadness reminds us that we are really alive and help us to appreciate the times wherein there is little or no sadness.
2007-07-23 18:49:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadness can be eradicated world wide with one step -- stop thinking sad thoughts. Stop talking about sad things.
2007-07-23 20:33:39 · answer #7 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
impossible, sadness is a relative term, without sadness there could be no happiness. we aren't robots after all.
2007-07-23 18:47:53 · answer #8 · answered by bsumser 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
of course the world would be a better place without sadness. There would be a llot less crimes, murders, ect...
2007-07-23 19:38:32 · answer #9 · answered by IslandOfApples 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋